The eldest son and daughter of a couple who starved and shackled 12 of their children spoke publicly for&nbsp;the first time Friday, alternately condemning and forgiving their parents before a judge s...

A newborn girl with her umbilical cord still attached was found by a newspaper carrier in the middle of a rural road in California before dawn on Tuesday in near-freezing temperatures. Authorities are...

In California, inmates typically are granted parole by doing good deeds or showing they have been rehabilitated by becoming pastors, drug counselors or youth advocates. For Walter "Earlonne" Woods, th...

One by one, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Gallo called the names of 14 defendants who were charged with entering the country illegally. Defense attorneys told him the government had already deported t...

Two nuns who worked for decades at a Catholic school in California embezzled a "substantial" amount of money from tuition and other funds and used it to pay for gambling trips to Las Vegas, church off...

The search for remains of victims of the devastating Northern California wildfire has taken on new urgency as rain in the forecast could complicate those efforts while also bringing relief to firefigh...